Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-02
THE DRUGGISTS PECULIAR ORDERS.


plicants for Medicines.
A Camhridgeport druggist has made a
practice for some years of saving in a
scrap book some of the most peculiar or
ders which he receives. I'VE are asked
for some rather strange things, he said
TO the writer. 'but we a generally
guess what is wanted. Many people ex-
pect a druggist TO prescribe for their all
ments, as it saves physicians charges,
and the diagnoses Of complaints which
come to us are often amusing. Look at
these; Send me some of the essence you
put people to sleep with when you cut
their fingers Off That evidently means
ether. Il want something TO take tobac-
co out Of my mouth OF course the
scent Of tobacco was the thing objected
10. Send me n baby's top to a nursing
bottle means. without doubt, a nursing
bottle top. An ounce Of the smelling
stuiI that goes through your brain de-
scrihes very well the effect of inhaling
ammonia. Something for a sore baby's
eye is not easy 10 mistake, though stated
rather oddly, Here is a startling order
for enough ipecac to throw up a girl
4 years Old cannot help sympathiz-
ing with this person, who asks for
enough aniseseed 10 take the twist out Of
a dose Of senna.' Here is a request for
q plaster for a mar kilt with stitches.
Perhaps the one who wrote this order
for something for a caustic woman
built better than he knew. Here is an
order for something for a heavy pain in
the bones that is coming out through the
eyes, The person who wrote for some
thing 10 take a mans breath away did
not intend murder or suicide, but merely
wished for cardamom seed or something
of that nature. / sent a liniment to this
lady. who asked for something to rub
my old man with Not a bad descrip-
ton of a Uoultice is the order for enough
flaxsecl to make a pudding for a sore
toe This child. who had IAN impress
sion on his heart and a cough that is
choking him in the neck ought to have
been taken 10 a doctor, as well as this
other one who, his mother wrote, was
'heaving up and down and every way
Here is a request for something u knock
a cold out Of an old woman The next
one seems TO be in hard condition. She
desires something for a woman who has
a bad cough and cannot cough No
druggist would hesitate for a minute to
fill this order: Something, | forget the
name, but it is for a cure Our Owl
preparation will just fill the bill in such
a case. But what should we send for a
'swelled woman's foot. a man with a
dry spit on him and "A woman whose
appetite is loose on herr
I'VE got used to phonetic spelling"
pursued the druggist. land are very
seldom unable to arrive al a fair con-
clusion Of what is wanted, even by the
blindest writers. Here are orders for
penny garick, parry garlic and paddy
garic, which procured ~paregoric in each
case. These orders for ~barnegat, verg-
mount and bugmint were filed with
bergamot: these requests for come ear
back. gum mare back, garmarihack,
comearahack and ram back called for
gum arabic; these asking for camfier and
campfire meant camphor; worn me fuge
and barmafug meant vermifuge, Of
course; where our customers have called
for epicot, metick. epicack. apricot and
epicat we have delivered ~ipecacuanha;
the persons who wrote for honey quintom,
blew ONT, Annie Quintom and Ann
Grintom got unguentum; otherwise
called blue ointment; orders for lolnom,
lad mum and lord warm we filed with
laudanum: for balm Of city we sent
spermaceti; those who wanted high
strips got hive syrup; this fellow who
wrote for paint killer received pain killer;
| knew that bubben wisky meant bour-
bon whisky, that air root meant arrow
root, and that bitter Alice meant bitter
aloes. sent Arabian balsam instead Of
raving balsam to this man, corrosive
sublimatc instead Of a gross Of supple
ments 10 that one, and cherry pcctoral
instead Of cherry pickcrcl TO this other.
| substituted syrup Of squilIs in these
orders for sharp squil and strip of swiIl,
sent Ayers pills TO this III who asks
for car pill, EPSON salts to the one who
wrote FOR lapson salt, and some cubebs
instead Of cupids to the other. Not hav-
ing any glory farm on hand, | took the
liberty of Cling this order with chloro-
form, and being ont Of fiack seed and
flack scd ] sGnt llaxseed in that one.
"When ! got these orders for OK sled
acid and horrid lime, ] sent oxalic acid
and chlorato Of lime. This man asks for
McCordon seed and this one for carman
seed, but | gave cardamom seeds 10 each.
Many orders come in where one syllable
is mistaken for a conjunction, as cliurrup
and quill. for syrup Of squills: check and
berry. for checkcrberry; gold and thread.
for golden thread; spit and turliletinc, for
spirits Of turTcntinc; Galm and gilead, for
balm of Gilcad; hope and dildock, for
opodeldoc. People who wish for borax
write for booracks, bowrux, bow rax and
how was. We get orders for Arnold's
blossom, instead Of balsam; Halls hair
manure for remover, and Barnctt's
'cocarinc, instead of cocaine. Custom
ers who want lovage write for love itch.
Those who desire licorice write for luck.
rich, logrish, lickrish and stickrish. Here
is a woman who wants five cents worth
Of cologne 10 smell a trunk. Another
asks for q mixture which shall be two
thirds alcohol and two-thirds castor oil.
This one wants something 10 make catnip
tea from, and the other asks for ten cents
u.n.ath 90 Nfaru afftn AID - naAo.